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Bartow's brigades on the Confederate side.
The Confederates were dislodged and driven back to the Henry house
Fatigue uniform and kilts of the 79th New York.
William Todd, of company B, 79th New York (Highlanders), writing to correct a statement to the effect that the 79th New York wore the Highland dress at the battle of Bull Run, says: if by that is meant the kilts, it is an error.
It is true that all the officers and many of the men did wear that uniform when we left the city in June, 1861, and on dress-parade occasions in Washington, but when we went into Virginia it was laid aside, together with the plaid trousers worn by all the men on ordinary occasions, and we donned the ordinary blue.
Captain — was the only one who insisted on wearing the kilts on the march to Bull Run, but the day before we reached Centreville the kilts were the cause of his drawing upon himself much ridicule, and when we started for the battle-field on that Sunday morning he, also, appeared in ordin

y were: killed, 203; wounded, 980; missing, 201,total, 1384.
The enemy's losses on the battle-field were about equal, if not greater than, ours, but they have never been accurately stated.
On the 7th we lost more on our right, against Price, than he did; the enemy (McCulloch's troops) more on his right against our left.
On the 8th, when our forces were concentrated against Van Dorn and Price, the enemy's loss was much more severe than ours.
In reviewing the period from the 13th of June, 1861, when the first expeditions started from St. Louis to the north-west and south-west of Missouri, and comprising the three campaigns under Generals Lyon, Fremont, and Curtis, we must acknowledge the extraordinary activity represented in these movements.
As war in its ideal form is nothing else than a continuous series of action and reaction, that side which develops the greater energy will, other conditions being equal, become master of the situation.
It was the energy of the South in the

se of Texas on the south for neighbors, the Choctaws and Chickasaws offered no decided opposition to the scheme.
With the Cherokees, the most powerful and most civilized of the tribes of the Indian Territory, it was different.
Their chief, John Ross, was opposed to hasty action, and at first favored neutrality, and in the summer of 1861 issued a proclamation, enjoining his people to observe a strictly neutral attitude during the war between the United States and the Southern States.
In June, 1861, Albert Pike, a commissioner of the Confederate States, and General Ben. McCulloch, commanding the Confederate forces in western Arkansas and the Department of Indian Territory, visited Chief Ross with the view of having him make a treaty with the Confederacy.
But he declined to make a treaty, and in the conference expressed himself as wishing to occupy, if possible, a neutral position during the war. A majority of the Cherokees, nearly all of whom were full-bloods, were known as Pin Indi

he beach on our side as possible, when about half-way, after passing all the enemy's vessels, we were struck by a shot which carried away our rudder-post and one of the blades of our propeller-wheel.
Being then unable to use our rudder, and heading directly for the enemy, we stopped and backed so as to get her head right, which we did, and with our large hawser out over our port quarter, we kept her going in the right direction, until the gun-boat Whitehall came to our assistance.
We lay that night alongside the Minnesota, and in the morning were towed to Fort Monroe.
I claim for the Zouave that she fired the first shot at the Merrimac, and that but for her assistance the Congress would have been captured; in evidence of which I refer to page 64 of Professor Soley's book, The blockade and the cruisers, also to the New York Herald of March 10th, 1862.
I held the appointment of acting master's mate, and had been in the service from June, 1861..
Detroit, Mich., March 9th, 1884.

The plan and construction of the Merrimac.
I. John M. Brooke, Commander, C. S. N.
Early in June, 1861, the Secretary of the Navy of the Confederate States asked me to design an iron-clad.
The first idea presenting itself was a shield of timber, two feet thick, plated with three or more inches of iron, inclined to the horizontal plane at the least angle that would permit working the guns; this shield, its eaves submerged to the depth of two feet, to be supported by a hull of equal letlement of the question by a patent, No. 100, granted me by the Confederate States, 29th July, 1862.
This patent is still in my possession.
Lexington, Va., October, 1887.
Ii. John L. Porter, Naval Constructor, Confederate States.
In June, 1861, I was ordered to Richmond by Secretary Mallory, and carried up with me a model of an iron-clad for harbor defense.
Soon after my arrival I was informed by the secretary that I had been sent for to confer with Chief Engineer W. P. Williamson a